Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1956, the police rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that flares had been seen from a vessel about three miles off shore near Hilbre Island. The coxswain kept the vessel under observation, and when another flare had been seen he.fired the maroons to call out the life-boat crew. The life-boat Oldham IV was taken from her house by her tractor at eight o'clock. She was towed across East Hoyle bank and launched in Hilbre Swash at 8.35. The sea was very rough, there was a strong west- north-west wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the fish- ing boat Jenny, of Chester, at anchor with a crew of two. She had broken down, but was dragging towards a lee shore. The life-boat approached the fishing boat four times before she was able to get a line on board, and the Jenny then slipped her anchor cable and was towed by the life-boat into more sheltered water off Caldy. There the skipper asked if the life-boat would tow his boat to Mostyn. The life-boat did so and arrived back at Hoylake at eight o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £20 13s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £12 16s..